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Hotel & awards —
Asha Bhonsle is on song
ASHA Bhonsle, a younger sister of Lata Mangeshkar, is the most respectable name in the Indian cine music industry. She was born on September 8, 1933. In April 1942 after the death of her father, Dinath Mangeshkar, her family moved from Pune to Kolhapur but ultimately settled in Mumbai. Asha sang her first film song for the Marathi film, Majha Bal, when she was just 10 years old. She started her career in 1958 when she sang the songs for the film, Lajwanti, and has never looked back since. She has been dominating the Hindi film industry since the last four decades. Asha has sung in almost every Indian language, including Bengali, in which she rendered Rabindra Sangeet, the songs of Tagore. She has also sung in Russian and has to her credit a chorus song with rap artists, Baba Sehgal and Boy George. Her most popular songs include Aankhon se jo utri hai dil mein in Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon to Yeh hai reshmi zulfon ka andhera in Mere Sanam, Aaiye meherban from the movie, Howrah Bridge, Mera kuch saman tumhare paas pada hai from Ijaazat. Asha Bhonsle has also done remixes and ghazals. She had sung songs for many films. Some of the films that are popular for the songs are Barsaat Ki Raat, Dil Deke Dekho, Hum Dono, Kashmir Ki Kali, Caravan, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Yaadon Ki Baraat, Kashmir Ki Kali, Umrao Jaan, Kati Patang, Sadma, Thakshak, Taal, Pyar To Hona Hi Tha, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge and Rangeela. She received many awards for her songs. Besides Filmfare Awards, Asha has bagged two best national singer awards — one in 1981 (film Umrao Jaan) and other in 1986 (film Ijaazat). She has also bagged many special awards like Nightingale of Asia Award in 1987, Lata Mangeshkar Award in 1989 and Screen Videocon Award in 1997 for Janam Samjha Karo. Asha Bhonsle also received 32nd Dadasaheb Phalke Award, which is the highest award in cinema. Asha Bhonsle recently launched a restaurant titled ‘Asha’s,’ at Pyramids in Wafi City, Dubai. This restaurant, which will offer her personal and favourite recipes, is the first one of the chain of restaurants planned in India and overseas. Some sites that lend a peep into her ‘songdom’ are: This site is a well-built site and it is totally dedicated to Asha. There are many sections of this site like Database years, Special Award, Interview - A day after, Choti si Asha, Bholi, I have a long way, DSP Award, 69th Birthday, Awards, Song Database, Photo Gallery and Wallpapers etc. Database Years is the section where we can see the songs sung by her in various years. This site is a good one for Asha fans as it contains large collection of free MP3 songs. The site is divided into different sections. The world section contains music in Arabic, Chinese, , French, German, Hindi, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu and many more languages. You can also post your songs and edit the listings of the uploaded songs just by viewing the song profile. But for all this, one has to become a member of this site. This site offers free e-mail account of 10 MB space, contact manager, Web page hosting, MP3 and online auction. Here a search engine is given that can be used to search music and other stuff on this site. Just type Asha Bhonsle in the search box which opens a page where a long list of songs sung by her are available. www.indianmelody.com/ashabhosle.htm This is a site where we
can listen songs of Asha Bhonsle. The most popular songs are listed
here. A link, www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/030300, provides old
songs of the singer. Aa Dil Se Dil Mila Le, Aaiye Meherban, Ab Kay
Baras are some of the songs available on this site. For the duets of
Asha Bhonsle and Mohd. Rafi one can check www.musicindiaonline
.com/music/l/030303 and for her songs with Kishore Kumar,
www.musicindiaonline.com/music/l/030301 is the link. A collection of
Bengali songs sung by the singer can also be had at www.calcuttaweb.com/gaan/
asha.shtml. www.glamsham.com/music/indipop This is another site from
where you can download and listen to Asha songs. Apart from Asha, here
you will find songs of different artists. Some famous dialogues of Hindi
cinema and humorous stuff are also available. |
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